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Not to post any material which is knowingly false, inaccurate, harmful, threatening, harassing, invasive of a person's privacy, or tending unreasonably to discredit or malign.

Not to post material that is racist, abusive, vulgar, hateful, obscene, sexually oriented, or otherwise violative of any UK law.

Copyright material must not be posted unless it is owned either by you or by this web site.

No links are permitted to web sites offering pirate/cracked/illegal software or illicit music and/or video downloads.

Products & Advertising

SOS permits members to use the forums to share links to products, services and other resources that might be of mutual benefit. These can be found in the main discussion forum, Recording & Production.

Individuals may post promotional material regarding products and services that would be relevant to the SOS readership — i.e. related to music recording and production. You may also include a link to a website in your personal signature (which appears under each post) or on your profile page but please make sure these are relevant to the SOS community. Anybody using this facility as a gateway to promote things that are considered 'spam' (for example, promoting a retail website that has nothing to do with music) may be warned by the moderating team.

Manufacturers and distributors are warmly welcomed to promote their products, services, events, competitions, jobs vacancies and special offers in the News forum but please make sure you have read and followed the guidelines first or you risk your posts being removed without warning.

We provide a dedicated For Sale and Wanted Readers Ads section of this site for the buying and selling of your own gear at www.soundonsound.com/readersads Adverts should be placed there and are not allowed in the Forum.

Chain letters, pyramid schemes, and similar are expressly forbidden in all forums.

Disclaimers

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The SOS Publications Group, the owners of this site, reserve the right to amend these Rules at any time. If so, you will be shown a revised set of Forum Rules when you next attempt to post and you will once again be offered the opportunity to Accept or Decline (see below).

Forum Posting Etiquette

Requests for links to, or support for, pirated/cracked software are expressly forbidden. Offending posts are liable to be removed and persistent offenders risk being banned from the forums. SOS reserves the right to report the IP address of persistent offenders to copyright owners.

NO SHOUTING - posting all in CAPITALS is considered bad form and the equivalent of shouting. Resist all temptation to use them, for there is a chance your post will be deleted — or ignored by members.

Unfortunately the SOS forums sometimes attract the attention of Internet Trolls who seek to cause disharmony among the legitimate users by making spurious or inflammatory posts. Anyone suspected of this kind of behaviour will be warned by the moderating team only once (check your forum Private Messages!). Continued inappropriate posts will result in the immediate deletion of their user account.

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